Uncomfortable
[ʌn'kʌmf(ə)təb(ə)l] or [ʌn'kʌmftəbl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) providing or experiencing physical discomfort; 'an uncomfortable chair'; 'an uncomfortable day in the hot sun' .
(adj.) conducive to or feeling mental discomfort; 'this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable'; 'the uncomfortable truth'; 'grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye'; 'an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest'; 'the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable' .
费理斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
(a.) Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation.
手打:莫林
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Disagreeable, displeasing, unpleasant, cheerless, dismal, miserable, unhappy, not comfortable.[2]. Close (as the weather), oppressive.
編輯:莉莉
解釋/意思:
adj. not comfortable causing discomfort or disquiet: awkwardly situated.—n. Uncom′fortableness.—adv. Uncom′fortably.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Bingley was quite uncomfortable; his sisters declared that they were miserable. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I was present myself, and I remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part of myself being disposed of in that way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If Napoleon had deemed it best to have continued his journey across the Atlantic to America he would have been compelled to pass several weeks on an uncomfortable sailing vessel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I am very uncomfortable with my money, because they tell me I have too little for any great scheme of the sort I like best, and yet I have too much. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Lydgate felt uncomfortable under these kindly suppositions. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Besides it felt so uncomfortable that he quickly decided that he preferred the shame to the discomfort. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She was not yet quite able to see him and his charming happy wife together, without feeling uncomfortable. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- You are wanting to find out if there is anything uncomfortable for you to do now, only because Mr. Casaubon wished it. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You make me feel very uncomfortable, Mary, said Rosamond, with her gravest mildness; I would not tell mamma for the world. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I mention this because it was at the theatre that I began to be made uncomfortable again by Mr. Guppy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The soldiers were already very uncomfortable and very refractory. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Dissatisfied, and uncomfortable, and--what would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me so! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If it's too uncomfortable, darling, lie on the other side, I said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Before we get to our destination we find the wheels themselves beginning to thump and jolt, and the passage becomes more difficult, more uncomfortable, and so much slower. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Will was even more uncomfortable than wondering. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Both looked quite 'calm and firm', and both felt desperately uncomfortable. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I see she is uncomfortable, and I plainly see this is the good reason wherefore. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I confess it made me uncomfortable. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- To his own surprise Will felt suddenly uncomfortable, and dared not look at her after they had bowed to each other. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You know how uncomfortable I feel with her. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It was not in Mr. Bulstrode's nature to comply directly in consequence of uncomfortable suggestions. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Without his scrapbooks, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Notwithstanding which, said Mr. Bucket, you get a little doubtful and uncomfortable in your mind about it, having a very tender mind of your own. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Emmy also came off with her Lares--her two pictures--and the party, finally, were, lodged in an exceedingly dear and uncomfortable house at Ostend. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I am under the deepest obligation to you, Mr. Farebrother, said Fred, in a state of uncomfortable surmise. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Very uncomfortable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I saw him still looking uncomfortable, watching the other cars pass and I stooped to see how the canvas was fastened. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
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